Flue or stovepipe cleaner.



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(Application filed ml. 23, 1901.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

DANIEL G. MILLER AND GEORGE N. BARNES, OF DIXON, ILLINOIS.

FLUE OR STOVEPIPE CLEANER.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 685,217, dated October22, 1901. Application filed March 23, 1901. Sena-1N0. 62,593. (Nomodel.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, DANIEL G. MILLER and GEORGE N. BARNES,citiZenS ofthe United States, residing at Dixon, in the county of Lee and State ofIllinois, have invented new and useful Improvements in Flue or StovepipeOleaners, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to. new and useful improvements in flue andstovepipe cleaners; and its primary object is to provide a device ofsimple and durable construction which is easily operated, effective, andwhich may be employed in either straight or crooked pipes.

With these and other objects in View the invention consists in the novelconstruction and combination of parts hereinafter more fully describedand claimed and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, showing thepreferred form of our invention, in which- Figure 1 is an elevation of astovepipe containing our improved cleaner, and Fig. 2 is a sectiontherethrough.

Referring to the drawings by numerals of reference, 1 is a pipe of anysuitable form, to the outer face of which is secured a bracket 2. Thisbracket is preferably arranged at the top of one of the upright portionsof the pipe 1 and serves as a bearing for a crank 3, having a socket 4in the inner end thereof, which receives the end of the crank-shaft 5,hearing within the pipe 1 and extending across the upright portionthereof. A coiled wire 6 is loosely secured to the crank of the shaft 5and extends longitudinally of the upright portion of the pipe 1. Acoiled spring 7 is secured to the inner end of the shaft 5 and extendsthrough the elbow 1 of the pipe 1.

When it is'desired to' clean the pipes, the crank 3 is revolved. Thiswill cause the wire 6 to reciprocate within the pipe and at the sametime will revolve the spring-coil 7. This coil will loosen the soot inthe pipe and serves as a conveyor whereby it is conducted to the outlet.It will thus be seen that we not only provide an effective cleaner whichscrapes the soot from the surfaces of the pipe, but also a double-actingconveyor, the coil 7 being a revolving spiral conveyor and the coil 6 avertically-reciprocating spiral conveyer, to which the revolvingconveyor delivers.

In the foregoing description we have shown the preferred form ofour'invention; but we do not limit ourselves thereto, as we are awarethat modifications may be made therein without departing from the spiritor sacrificing any of the advantages thereof, and We therefore reservethe right to make all such changes as fairly fall within the scope ofthis invention.

Having thus fully described our invention, what we claim as new, anddesire to secure by Letters Patent, is-- The combination with aStovepipe comprising a vertical section and an elbow-section of acleaner comprising a revoluble coil arranged within the elbow-section,and a reciprocating coil within the vertical section of the pipe, and acrank-shaft to which both of said coils are attached whereby therevoluble coil serves as a co veyer to deliver to the reciprocatingcoil, the latter serving to clean the vertical section of the pipe anddischarge the soot into the stove.

In testimony whereof we affix our signatures in presence of twoWitnesses.

DANIEL G. MILLER. GEORGE N. BARNES.

Witnesses:

JAooB S. HILL, JOHN PENROSE.

